Daqin: When I return from sea, I will offer you a map of the world

Chapter 224 One Month
The first emperor agreed to make Zhao Si unprepared.

"Your Majesty, I haven't said who it is yet." Zhao Si smiled awkwardly and looked at the wooden tank sculpture that Emperor Shi Huang used as a paperweight.

Since the birth of paper, it has been quietly used in daily official reports. Looking at the wooden tanks used for paperweights, it is always a bit of a drama to put together.

Well, it's been played.

"Zhang Cang is a good talent, and it's a bit of a shame to be your disciple." Shi Huang shook his head and smiled.

He didn't know the unconstrained thoughts in Zhao Si's mind, paper and wood carving tanks were nothing to the first emperor.

What he felt was Daqin's silent change.

It doesn't seem like much has changed, but it seems like a lot has started to change.

Since the birth of paper, the writing medium has been updated and the writing speed has been improved. In recent days, the official documents passed from Xianyang have become a bit complicated.

In the beginning, a few hundred characters in the bamboo slips was too much, but now a few hundred characters seems to have quietly become a norm.

The official documents delivered by the group of left-behind cadres in Xianyang can't wait to report everything in detail. After all, people are not with the first emperor, so they have to try their best to let the first emperor know that they have done their best.

The content of the memorial has a tendency to exceed a thousand characters.

"After printing this paper and put it into use, the number of words in the memorial has increased." Shi Huangdi didn't continue to dwell on Zhang Cang's question, Zhao Si wanted this talent, so he gave it.

Zhao Si can be regarded as the new generation that the First Emperor focused on training. He needs to have his own political power, and Zhang Cang, as an old man in the court, is the existence that gives Zhao Si the bottom line.

"It should be fine now... After all, the world is still mostly bamboo slips, and the mainstream style of writing is still dominated by simplification." Zhao Si smiled.

This is indeed a minor annoyance of social progress at the same time.

Where is this? It is said that after Zhu Yuanzhang ruled the world, some officials wrote a memorial of tens of thousands of words. Lao Zhu read between the lines for a long time, and there were only a few hundred words in total. The other party has a meal.

Later, in the Qing Dynasty, local officials who were not loved by their fathers and mothers seized the opportunity to play for the central government, and they could produce tens of thousands of words of works just for flattery...

The workload of the emperor has increased in a straight line, there are still so many things to do, but there are more junk files~

"Your Majesty can draft official documents and urge officials to speak the truth." Zhao Si was also quite helpless.

There are not many measures that can be done. As writing becomes more convenient, official documents become more and more complicated. This is an inevitable trend.

Even the number of words with literary genres has begun to increase. This kind of thing is more good than bad. Literature and word counts are sinking, and the difficulty of appreciation is getting lower and lower.

"Grinding ink..." Shi Huang waved his hand, and Zhao Si obediently sat aside to study ink for Shi Huang.

It's not a problem if it continues like this, but I have to urge the officials not to let themselves go. Now let's deal with hundreds of words and thousands of words for the time being. When the wind of ten thousand words becomes popular, Emperor Shihuang will have a headache thinking about it.

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On the same day, the First Emperor drafted new regulations on speeches, requiring all officials to be concise and focus on speeches, and avoid large-scale irrelevant fragments.

In duplicate, one was sent to Xianyang to the group of left-behind officials, and the other was sent to the accompanying civil and military officials.

It's not that there is no strictness on how many words the memorial must be in, nor is there any rules and regulations, it is just a kind of consolation.

After all, the first emperor only said that if he kept silent repeatedly, there would be some triggers, but he didn't specify how to punish him.

The first emperor was still very oppressive.

As soon as this decree came out, the situation of the memorials improved a lot. As for the cumbersome memorials submitted by local officials, it is difficult to solve. If you don’t love your mother or your father, you can’t send a few telegrams to the first emperor throughout the year. It's not realistic to be flattering.

Most people just hope that Emperor Shihuang can have such a slight impression of himself in his heart after reading his Huatuanjinxiu article.

Who doesn't want to be a ruling official?

Who wouldn't want to be able to accompany Shi Huangdi every day?

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"It's rainy again..." On the frame, Zhao Si, who was the driver, was a little bored.

Jia Tuo didn't stay in Yangwu for long, and not long after Zhang Cang and Chen Ping were captured, Shi Huang's Jia Tuo continued to set off.

It rained not long after we set off, and the autumn rain continued...a month passed in a blink of an eye!
Qiuhuo has become a paper tiger through and through, and a continuous autumn rain has caused the temperature to drop suddenly.

The rain is not heavy, but it looks a little continuous. These days, there are hardly a few days of sunshine.

But this does not affect the continued progress of the drive. It is hard to say anything else about Daqin, but the infrastructure is absolutely fine.

Especially road construction.

Daqin's Chidao and Guandao, unless it encounters continuous torrential rain, may have problems.also
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On the other side, inside the frame, Zhang Cang, Chen Ping, Chen Sheng, and Wu Guang sat around the case.

"Ahem..." Chen Ping coughed together

Due to the sudden drop in temperature, there are many people in the huge and mixed convoy who have caught a cold because of this, and Chen Ping is one of them.

In the afternoon, I was still holding ice cubes to enjoy the coolness. In the evening, a rain directly poured down the temperature, and the ice cubes didn't have time to remove.

Fortunately, the young man has strong firepower, so Chen Ping's body is fine.

"Drink Sheng, please..." Zhang Cang raised his wine glass and looked at Chen Sheng and Wu Guang.

Chen Sheng and Wu Guang are now being given to Li Si to deal with miscellaneous things, learn and exercise their abilities, and they don't have much contact with Zhang Cang, Chen Ping, and the others. It was Zhang Cang who specially entrusted Zhao Si and the four to meet and have dinner alone.

To be precise, this is the first team building of the disciples supported by Zhao Si's subordinates.

It's a pity that Zhao Si, the chairman, has to be the driver of the first emperor.

Although Chen Sheng and Wu Guang became wealthy suddenly, their wealth was for their neighbors.

Now he has become Zhao Si's disciples, following the first emperor to tour the world, and the people around him are all court officials, but the two of them are just disciples who have no specific practice, and the impetuousness in their hearts is suppressed before they have time to flourish.

Not to mention, Zhang Cang, the entourage that Zhao Si later introduced.

Zhang Cang has been famous for a long time, even if he is thrown in the court, he is regarded as the number one figure, he cannot tolerate disrespect from Chen Sheng and Wu Guang.

When they were humble, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were neither lacking in brains nor abilities.

"Please Zhang Yushi!" Chen Shenghao drank it all in one gulp.

Recently, following Li Si to deal with government affairs, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang have indeed learned a lot, and they have also come into contact with many things that were impossible to come into contact with before.

The two are like dry sponges constantly absorbing nutrients, learning the legal system of the Qin State, and constantly making up for their own fundamental deficiencies.

"I am no longer the censor. If the lord hadn't escaped the crime for me, I'm afraid I would still be on the run. Now I'm just like you, I'm the lord's guest. You and I are all colleagues, so there is no need to be formal." Zhang Cang smiled and drank the same drink. do.

Zhang Cang put down his airs and introduced Chen Ping to Chen Sheng and Wu Guang.

"We are both surnamed Chen, maybe it was the same case hundreds of years ago..." Chen Sheng joked carelessly.

This is true. In this era, if you really want to trace people with the same surname, you can probably trace some relationship.

Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were open-minded and easy to make friends, Zhang Cang and Chen Ping did not despise them, and the four of them quickly became acquainted.

Zhang Cang's main task is to help Zhao Si to identify whether there are people who are impostors in the team, and the second is to organize team liaison for Zhao Si and determine the central idea with Zhao Si as the main one.

There was no way, Zhao Si didn't distinguish between inside and outside, and threw him to Li Si.

As for Zhao Si himself, he had to serve the king, so he rarely had the opportunity to organize team building on weekdays, and he was completely free-range for the followers under his command.

If things go on like this, it might be difficult to tell whether it belongs to Li Si or Zhao Si after raising this talent.

"If you have any inappropriate handling of official documents in the future, you can also ask me." Zhang Cang smiled.

Now people can't directly want to come back, maybe it will make it difficult for Zhao Si, but it must be intervened, and Chen Sheng and Wu Guang cannot be separated from Zhao Si's grasp.

After this period of observation, Zhang Cang can also be sure that his senior brother is not lying.

Chen Sheng and Wu Guang did have the talent of two thousand stones.

With their hearts and learning ability, they will definitely be able to govern one side in the future. It can be seen that at least Li Si now has not done any small tricks to think carefully.

But after all, it is a talent who can write the theory of rats, so we should guard against it.

Everyone is smart, Zhang Cang has the intention, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang have the intention.

After a meal, Chen Ping offered to build an initial offensive and defensive alliance around Zhao Si, and Chen Sheng and Wu Guang chose to join with pleasure.

Just kidding, Li Si has so many old students and old officials under his command, when will it be his turn to Chen Sheng and Wu Guang?
The situation is still good, at least now there is no need to worry about Zhao Si's disciples' hearts changing.

"Chen Sheng and Wu Guang don't have to worry about the lord. They started in the infancy and all depended on the lord's promotion. Now they don't lack the determination to die for the lord..."

"In the future, there will be more people of all kinds, so it may not be easy to talk about..."

Standing in front of the frame and witnessing the departure of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, Zhang Cang, the little white fat man who was slightly sleepy and drunk just now, was already full of eyes.

"In my opinion, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang have a big heart and great ambitions. Although their handling of political affairs is rough, they are just learning, and their future prospects should be more than two thousand stones." Chen Ping smiled.

It's quite strange, two plowmen caught casually are really talents of two thousand shi.

"It can only stop at two thousand stones. Going any higher will be a disaster for them. They only care about wealth and honor, which is not enough for the court of Daqin." Zhang Cang shook his head.

After Zhao Si's first team building was over, Zhang Cang accomplished his task brilliantly, and recorded his evaluation of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in his own notebook.

On the other side, far away overseas...

Several ships flying the Qin flag are drifting on the sea.

The black and thin Jing stood on the deck, looking at the vast coastline, with a smile on his face.

(It is said that starting from Fusang, where is the best place to disembark at the first stop of the voyage, it is urgent, I will copy it.)
(End of this chapter)